Why I wrote Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned! by Stephen L. Goldstein

I wrote Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned, a novel, a work of (what I call) fictional truth/truthful fiction for three compelling reasons: 

1: To save people from reading 1084 pages of unreadable propaganda (in my paperback edition). Unless you are a masochist, you don't have to read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged before reading my novel Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned!--or remember it if you have. I wrote the first chapter of Atlas Drugged so EVERYONE would be brought up to speed on the ruthless philosophy of Ayn Rand and the broad outlines of Atlas Shrugged.

2: To see if it would be easier to "get through to people" through fiction. Ayn Rand did it. After writing well-researched, fact-based opinion newspaper columns for going on 13 years, I came to the unavoidable, bizarre realization that (too many) people will believe fiction more readily than fact. Tell them that the sky is blue, and they'll tell you it REALLY isn't. Tell them that the sky is chartreuse, and they'll bend over backwards to confirm it--like saying that, after all, at sunset you can see streaks of yellow-green in the sky.

3: To do my part to wake Americans up to the fraud, deception, scam, sham, and flim-flam of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged--right before the 2012 Election. For too long, her work of COMPLETE FICTION has been accepted as ABSOLUTE TRUTH. Too many generations of Americans have used it to justify their acting out of heartless selfishness and greed. Tragically, its free-market philosophy has influenced elected officials and public-policy makers in Congress and the highest levels of government. It has turned the USA into the Corporate States of America, average Americans be damned. I'm not a self-deceiving megalomaniac; but, if enough people read and spread the message(s) of Atlas Drugged, maybe, just maybe, people will begin to see and understand how destructive Ayn Rand and her followers have been--and keep the tea party/GOP from taking over the country in 2012.

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